I am new to Adobe Premiere Elements and am struggling to add some smooth scrolling titles with a plain black background. It makes no difference whether I select any one of the text animation presets or the roll/crawll options. To provide background and details for analysis, I have listed out some criteria and settings as below:-

I am using Premier Elements V10.0

The work area is rendered.

My preferred output medium is a DVD for a HD PAL TV. I have also tried other settings such as standard MPEG or WMF or AVI with zero difference.

I have tried different combinations of project settings, my current is HDV 1080i at 25 frames/sec. You would have thought that 25 frames/sec would scroll text smoothly.

I have tried zooming in to the maximum possible at which point each frame is visible. I can see the text moving on each frame, although would comment that the amount of movement seems rather a lot, which does make me wonder whether it is simply a function of 25 frames/sec.

There is not a great deal of text, no more than 4 or 5 words over a 6 second timeframe, ideally scrolling across from left to right. However, I am not terribly hung up about the type of scroll.

I have kept to PAL based settings for both the project and output formats, not sure whether selecting something else might make a difference.

Finally, I have tried changing the field options (none, Interlace consecutive frames, always deinterlace, flicker removal), again with no effect.

I am sure this must be something very simply. Any suggestions gratefully received.

This sounds like a similar problem which I enquired about some weeks ago. I referred to it as 'flickery' scroll/roll, as though the field order was wrong. Nobody came up with a solution so I did some digging around. In my view, Adobe 'broke' something in PrEl9 onwards. I reinstalled v8 and 9 to my PC and this 'fault' is not apparent in v8 but IS in v9 and v10. If I create a simple scroll/roll against black in v10 and then load it into v8 - the fault shows in v10 but not in v8. I have not found a solution in v9/10, other than to use v8 for projects which include moving text. (I am in PAL land (UK)m working with DVPAL 25fps). Good luck! Alan S.